| Shuniah | |
| Official Name: | Municipality of Shuniah |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality (single-tier) |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Mapsize: | 200px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Coordinates: | 48.5833°N -138°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1860s |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated (Township) |
| Established Date2: | 1873 |
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (Municipality) |
| Established Date3: | 2011 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Wendy Landry |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Area Land Km2: | 570.99 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 2798 |
| Population Density Km2: | 4.9 |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code: | P0T & P7A |
| Website: | www.shuniah.org |
Shuniah is a municipal township bordering the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada on the east. Shuniah was incorporated by an act of the Ontario legislature in 1873, and at that time included much of present-day Thunder Bay and its predecessor and surrounding municipalities.[2] It gradually shrunk in size until by 1936 it included only three wards, the geographic townships of McIntyre, McGregor, and McTavish. That year it had the Ontario Legislative Assembly remove a number of islands in Lake Superior that had formed the Island Ward since 1873.[3] In 1970 McIntyre Township was amalgamated into the city of Thunder Bay. Shuniah, named after the Ojibwa word "zhooniyaa" for "money" or "silver" (see the French argent), was settled largely due to silver mining potential identified in the mid-19th century.
The township is part of Thunder Bay's Census Metropolitan Area, and consists of the communities of Amethyst Harbour, Ancliff, Bowker, Ishkibibble, Loon, Mackenzie, Navilus, Pass Lake, Pearl, Silver Harbour and Wild Goose.
Serving today primarily as a rural bedroom community to Thunder Bay, Shuniah is also a popular cottaging locale with 40 kilometres of Lake Superior's northern shoreline. The township was home to the Lake Superior Trout Hunt during the 1970s and 1980s.
From 1994 to 2014, the township reeve was Maria Harding. On October 27, 2014, Wendy Landry was elected as Reeve and as of January 26, 2015 the title of the Head of Council was changed from Reeve to Mayor. Landry was re-elected in 2018.[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Shuniah had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 571.34km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]